4 Out Our Way By Williams WHEq's NOUR PAR — WOO CM TAKE M'S LuMCH "TO H>M VOcASElF. HE-'LL BE GLAO y-T* S>EE WOO GlAO -T SEE 'EM YnEH.iF SOME HA- HA - HE iMI&HfA O' "^SE HARO BEEtsl ,lF THEV v haom' OF CAUGHT HUM EjVTTim' OOWNi VHES> GOT A RE° AT HOME FOR 8El*sl' A HARO vmoRKow mam am1 he'd l\worme?^ DTP wm M ■ff ■*>’ BY WtA SenviCE. IWC. ■ INABILITY TO SELL TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING LED IDAHO WOMAN TO FORM CO-OPERATIVE POOL Organization Handles as Many as 87 Carloads a Season Now Boise. Idaho — Nine years ago, Mr*. C. G. Brink sot out from her ranch on the outskirts of this city with a load of dressed turkeys, hop ing to sell them to local butchers for Thanksgiving trade. She was too late. Butchers had already contracted for their holi day birds and a house-to-house canvass brought forth nary a sale. Mrs. Brink was disappointed But with it came a detennination that such an occurrence would never happen again. She made the cold trek back to her ranch and there set about devising a plan which resulted in the formation of one of the largest turkey pools in the country. Mrs. Brink visited several of her neighbors who raised turkeys to add a few dollars to the family in come. She lined up 14 who were will ing to co-operate with her in a tur key pool. In 1924 the association was formed. Today it has nearly 2,000 ' members. Increases Profits "When all of our birds were gath ered that fall, they made one car load, ’ Mrs. Brink recalls. ‘‘We sold every one of them, and we sold them for 34 cents a pound, where before, working individually, the most we had been able to get was l 17 cents a pound.” I , During the last season or two, Mrs. Brink’s turkey pool has handled as high as 87 car loads of turkeys a season, each of which averaged 24,000 pounds. This has 1 put her pool in the million-dollar class. The association has other officials Here’s a Tip A. E. KNIGHT Plat asparagus is a new wrinkle in vegetables that A. E. Knight of An Emperor Resigns. Prom the Philadelphia Public Ledger. No title is so absolute nor so well Secured by inheritance and tradi tion as that of the Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia, known also as the ‘Conquering Lion of Judah and considered a direct descendant of Solomon himself. But the Em peror has voluntarily surrcnd?rcd hi* absolute monarchy, not in an swer to public demand but because he thinks it the decent thing to do. Constitutional government for Abyssinia has been contemplated for some years, but the emperor , .considered his oeoole unready for its j but Mrs. Brink, “Idaho’s Turkey Queen,” is “bass of the outfit.” She is a determined, fighting, plain spoken little farm wife. Her time is spent in journeying throughout the state, conferring with members of the pool, super vising educational campaigns in the raising of turkeys, and caring for her owm flock of more than GOO birds. Other Pools Organized In the last few years several oth er turkey pools have been organized in the state and throughout the country. Many of these have been copied after the system employed by Mrs. Brink and her associates. At regular intervals some offi cial of the association visits vari ous sections of the area taken in by members of the pool and meet ings are held for the discussion of Here is a portion of the turkey flotk of Mrs. C. G. Brink at Boise, Idaho. At right is photo of Mr . Brink. problems of brooding, eliminatio: of diseases and feeding. The association has erected it: own brooder house near this cit; and next year plans to erect i hatchery so that it may supplj young turkeys to members of tlr association at cost. Veradale, Wash., is raising. He is shown here with an asparagus shoot he has developed which is two inches wide and only three-eighths of an inch thick. The shoot is 42 inches long. Tools and Supplies For House Repair \_* Washington, D. C.-(NSA)—Pos sibly now more than any other time of the year should one work on re pairs of his home. Weather condi tions are favorable and long eve nings and good light aid consider ably. But good took and correct ones are what makes work around the house easy. These tools, listed by Vincent B. Phelan of the United states bu reau of standards, are most fre quently needed and enable the householder to perform the ordin ary tasks in the upkeep of the house. Here is the list: Claw hammer, two screw drivers, one large and one small, wire cut ting pliers, two wood chisels, small paint brush, jackknife, putty knife, hack saw, cold chisel, folding rule, hatchet, gimlet and smoothing plane. Seoondary tools are: Steel square, nail set. mason’s trowel, three-cornered file, stil son wrench, metal shears, brace responsibilities. But now he thinks that 'such progress has been made as to enable them to take up some share of the task." He has instituted, therefore, a legislative body of two j chambers, a Ministry and a Consti tution, and promises the enactment of laws "inspired by scientific prin ciples” Hitherto the emperor’s wish and word was all the law that Abys sinia needed, but now the nation i« to be governed by statute and "ev ery one will be subject to law." The paternal and benevolent in terest of one of the few real mon arch* left in the world is not to be altogether sacrificed to the new regime. "Abjs&lnia must u main and bits, soldering iron, glass cut ter, drawknifc, water bucket, tun nel and flashlight. A list of special tools which are useful but which are r.ot required as often are: Rip saw, jack plane, miter box, vise, plasterer’s trowel, crowbar, pinch bar, gasoline blow torch, coil spring-steel pipe-cleaning auger, force pump, carpenter’s level. A third list of supplies to be held on hand in case of emergency fol lows: Sandpaper, sponge, seat wash ers, candles, assorted nails, assort ed screws, friction tape, rubber tape, electric fuses, nuts and bolts, cop per and iron wire, soft solder and rubber tubing. ARIZONA HOTELS PROSPER Phoenix, Am. — (UP) — Arizona, with its population of less than half a million, enjoys an annual hotel business of more than $6,000,030. a Chamber of Commerce survey dis closed. A large portion of the hotel income is from eastern visitors who spend the winters in southern Ari zona, with the summer business of the northern highlands swelling the volume considerably. TAX FREE CITY FORECAST Daihart, Tex.— (UP>—Stating that the city water and light plant can care for its own bonced indebted ness, Mayor Ira L. Pennington of Clayton, 50 miles norinwest of here, sees a tax-free city for the next fis cal year. There only will be one ex ception, a 3 Vi mill tax to finance tha police and fire department. united like a single family,” say* the Lion of Judah But th- emperor acknowledges that he also must obey the new Constitution and gov ern according to it. The abdication or renunciation of absolute right and authority has been done with dignity and also with suitable pomp and ceremony. If emperors feel they must resign, indeed, they could scarcely do so more gracefully. THREE SETS OF TWINS Colds boro. N. C.—(UP)-WiU Handley s cow has g.ven birth to seven coifs during her life, includ ing three seu of twins Healthiesi Girl I r SWT. Hilda Mae Hall (above), of Eustis, Fla., chosen as the healthiest 4-H Club girl in Florida, will enter the national contest at Chicago in No vember. An expert swimmer and a skilled golfer, her physical train ing for the past year has been under the direction of Florence Smock, also of Eustis, who won the State’s 4-H Club honors in 1929. Peach and Oranges We don’t know for sure whether peaches and oranges go well to gether in all cases, but in this par ticular instance there’s no doubt about it. Pretty Geralda Wood (above) is the luscious peach who has been selected to represent Southern California’s orange crop in the Court of Agriculture, which will be a feature of the Los An geles County Fair in September. Dared Niagara! When we say, “Dared Niagara1” we refer to the dog and not the man, strange as it may seem. The weather being hot for canine as well as human, this police dog decided to take a dip in the Niagara River above the thundering falls. But be fore he could save himself Mr. Dog was precipitated over the falls (and not in a barrel). However, he lived to wag the tale after John Cavanaugh (shown with him) rescued h>«* fro* • tack. OF INTEREST TO FARMERS FEEDING GROWING I'IGS Feeding young growing pigs in dry-lot requires more special atten tion to the supply of protein and mineral matter than feeding simi lar pigs or good pasture. Several good dry-lot rations might be sug gested; one can feed only one iu iion at a time, however, and it does not pey to change often from one good ration to another. The basal part of the ration will consist, of course, of the cereal grains either singly or in combination These grains must be supplemer.'.-d with mixtures carrying protein of excel lent quality. In addition to this It will pay to feed a simple mineral , mixture supplying calcium, phos- , phorus, and lcdine. Taking up the , basal part of the ration, and as- \ suming that the pigs are to be pushed as rapidly as possible to mar ket weights, the grain may consist of shelled corn or coarsely ground durum wheat or coarsely ground barley self-fed. In determining which of those to feed, one should oe guided by price, keeping in mind that durum wheat is about equal to corn, pound for pound, in leecl lng pigs and that barley averages to be worth about 90 per cent of the value of corn. Rye middlings and oats are relatively cheap. It one Is to take advantage of this we sug gest carrying the pigs on a ground mixture of barley, oats, and r^e middlings in the proportions of aO parts ground barley, 25 parts ground oats, and 25 parts rye mid dlings until the pigs are from 125 to 150 pounds weight and then switch them over to shelled corn self-fed for the remainder of the feeding period. As a protein supple ment to any one of the above sug Sestions for a basal part of the ra ion, we suggest a mixture com posed of 50 parts tankage, 20 parts wheat middlings, 20 parts linseed meal and 10 parts alfalfa meal. (The alfalfa meal, preferably leaf meal, Is quite important in dry-lot feeding.) This mixture should be self-fed. The skimmilk should be hand-fed at a rate of about three pounds for each pound of grain consumed if the supply is adequate. Feeding skimmilk at a rate even as low as one pound for each pound of grain consumed will add an ex cellent stimulus to growth and will return a higher value per hundred pounds of milk fed than when fed at a rate of three to one. The pigs will balance their protein needs from the supplemental mixture re gardless of whether the skimmilk Is jod one to one or three to one of grain. A simple mineral mixture should be provided In a self-feeder separate from the grain and sup plemental mixture. We suggest one of 20 parts salt. 39.98 parts finely ground high calcium limestone, §9.94 parts spent bone black, and 9.04 part potassium iodide. One should not forget salt, water, and shade. If these pigs are healthy they should average to make from 1.5 to 1.75 pounds gain daily per head on the ration suggested. Their feed requirements per 100 pounds gain should be well under 400 pounds feed. -■ — ♦ THE ‘‘REAL’* RURAL LIFE Farm women, and men too, are apt to count their waking hours as their working day, and make en vious comparisons with the eight hour working day in the city. We can understand that, tut it sur prises us to see rural sociologists making the same mistake. In a re cent bulletin is the statement that one-third of the farm women sur veyed had a working day of 15 to 16'4 hours, and the working day of another third was 14 to 141 a hours. Are we to suppose that these groups of farm women didn't eat, talk on the telephone, make calls, take naps, listen to the radio, or go on trips at least to town’ But a 15 hour working day would mean working steadily from 5 in the morning until 8 at night with not an instant’s pause. That is what the average reader would understand, at least. In an obscure table else where the bulletin sociologists ex plain that the actual time devoted to household duties by these women tanged from 6 1-2 to 11 1-2 hours. Some women worked as little as 4 hours a day. And that is quite a different tale, to be sure. Few wo men of leisure are found in the country, their number is propor tionately small in the city, but many farm women have all the modern conveniences, and most of them have some of them. With good planning modern farm women are able tr> get their work done so as to leave considerable time for other things, and the fine rural community work that is being car ried on 4s only one of the evidences that they are using this time to good purpose. COCKERELS OCT There is one way whereby poul trymen can insure much better rearing conditions for their pullets »nd that is by seperating the cock erels from the rest of the brooding flecks as soon as the sexes can be distinguished. This should be done at latest when the chicks are three or four weeks old. The cockerels ean be put In separate colony houses and reared there to broiler age, or they can be placed in bat teries and forced for rapid growth is broilers Separating the cociser els from the pullets gives each a better chanoe. thins out the flock.-, and relieves intensive growing con ations. “VITAMIN D” IMPORTANT The need for salt by animals has been recognized from time imme morial but only in comparatively late years have we begun to realize the important part other mineral elements play in the health and well-being of animals. A list of the minerals now known to be required oy farm animals looks pretty much like the table of elements in the back of a textbook of chemistry. We find that relatively large SCENERY AND FARM SIGNS Like everything else, the cam paign for “Signless Highways’’ ihould be carried on with modern -ion and horse sense. Where signs definitely mar beauty of scenery chey should be abolished; yet there ire many thousands of miles of highway wnere we would just as soon look at the work of the ad vertising artist as anything else that is in sight. This, however, is certain; nothing must interfere with the right of the farm owner to direct attention to his own land, to the products he has for sale, if any. Legislation on the subject must be framed so as to protect the tarmer'i roadside market. He • amounts ol cakiurn, phosphoru* sodium, potassium and chlorine are inquired and smaller amounts at it dine, iron, copper and other min eral elements. 'Hie ration may be balanced in so far as eneigy and protein requirements are concerned yet tail to maintain the health find productivity of the animal. Even xnilk, once considered a complete food, Is falling into disrepute under the searching scrutiny of sc.euoe. Vitamins march hand in hand with minerals. Vitamin D is an important factor in the assimilation of cal cium while other vitamins are oth erwise conoerned in animal nutri tion. whipping Cream. Dairymen selling cream lor whip ping need not skim an excessively rich cream to secure th; ma-amui* whip. Various e.vptrn.i nta, particu larly those conducted by Babcoofc of the United States department of agriculture, show that a very satis factory whip, in lact, a maximum whip, may be s cured from a cream testing only 30 p r cent luitterfat. Cream testing higher than this does not yield a greater whip but rather a whip having more sdflness. Ag ing tiie cream improves its whip pabllity. but the limiting factor oo cream whipping is the temperature of cream at time of whipping, ttaw cream whips a little better tamo pasteurized cream, due perhaps to its greater viscosity. Thin cream, 20 per cent l'at, properly aged, and at the proper temperature, below 43 degrees, yields a good whip, but tha whip lacks stiffness. A 30 per cent cream appears to be very satisfac tory for whipping. ■■ ■ -—-- ♦ POISON POTATO BUGS The potato bug, properly known as the Colorado potato beetle, la best controlled with poison sul> stanccs. Mix one pound of calcium arsenate and one pound of lima into each 25 gallons of water. Or mix threc-fourts of a pound of park green and twice that weight of lime in the same quantity of water, or use one and one-half pounds of lead arsenate alone. Cal cium arsenate Is regarded as ttw best poison to use. Use a sprayer that throws a fine mist; a sprink ler can Is too wastful and the un even treatment burns the leave*. On small potato patches the poi son may be mixed with flour, about one part poison to 10 or 20 part* of flour, and dusted on from a per forated can or a piece of chees* cloth. GOOD GRASS FOR SOWS. When brood sows have finished with nursing their spring litters and are to be retained for producing fu ture litters, the problem of main tenance is one of economic import ance in swine management. Mature sows will do well on good grasi and a little grain, corn or ground barley. They must be made to re plenish body depletions sacrificed to their pigs. They will do tills on good grass and a little grain They will not do It on grass alone Sows that have not reached maturity at the time of spring farrowing will need good grass, more gram than mature sows, and a little skim milk or tankage. They must grow in skeleton and body as well as re p irh th° depir*. ons occasioned bj nursing p.gs. Good pastuic i; es sential to the economical mainten ance of brood sows from soring weaning of pigs to fall forrowirg. COOL HOUSES With th« advent of warm weath er it is very important to keen th« houses in which the laying birds are confined as. cool as. pus iblc, both day and night. Tills tun ba best accomplished by means' of openings in the back wall ol the house. These should bo of two types—first, window sash placed near the floor at the bail', which serves to admit light throughout the year, and which during the summer can be removed to permit a free circulation of air. In addi tion, it is well to have ventilator openings at the back of the hi use. just below the eave or plate, to make It possible l'or the warm air to pass out ol the house quickly and be replaced with fresh air «rom outside. Most poultry houses can be improved by installing odditionaj back ventilation. SPRAYING EVERGREENS Conifer trees that are infected wth pine leaf scale (chionaspls pinifoliae) shouid be sprayed before growth of the trees starts )» the spring. Pine leaf scale is very abun dant and is the most serkiis jrest on conifers. Pine and spruce frees are especially damaged by r* It is quite conspicuous on lenv* ■ and may be seen as small, white scales on the needles of trees. The best control consists of spraying with lime-sulphur, one part of the spray to seven or eight parts of wafer. Spraying may be done any lime ■ now, providing the weather is warm ! enough to operate a sprayer, j Growerss recommend apply my the I solution as a dormant or delaying | dormant spray. THE CELLAR FOR ECJC.S With the advent of warm weath er the egg cases or baskets should be moved to the cellar or eavc Tt only takes two or three days of 80 or 85 degree weather to put fertile eggs out of the “hennery ’ or best grade and a few more to make the eggs unlit for food. And whether buying on grade or merely culling, buyers end dealers are going to watch closer for doubtful eggs thta season thr.n ever before. ONE CAUSE OF RICKETS Not having access to pasture or Its equivalent in leafy legume hay. and being fed throughout the (win ter ms inly on cereal grains and their by-products ,pigs rkwlop rickets. right and interest superior to that of the general advertiser, and eve* of the lover of scenic beauty. ♦*- ■ - - CULL! CULL! CULL* To place your dairy herd on a profitable basis this year, you »>»y find it necessarv to cull out. 10. 30. or even 30 per cent of the tows on account of low production The cows that aro left may then be ted a liberal ration according, to pro duction. Your herd will then bo on a profitable pf sis and you will linve the satisfaction of knowing that even in these abnormal times every cow In your herd has enough to eat.